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Clayeo C. Arnold

CLAYEO C. ARNOLD, Founder and President of the ARNOLD LAW FIRM

Clayeo C. Arnold has built a successful law practice aggressively representing Californians injured by the negligent or careless actions of others. For forty years, Mr. Arnold has fought for full compensation for losses as a result of injuries or the death of a loved one.

Born in Sacramento on Feb. 13, 1947, Mr. Arnold attended Christian Brothers High School. In 1966, Mr. Arnold joined the U.S. Army and served in Vietnam in 1967-68 with the 589th Combat Engineers. Mr. Arnold received the Army Commendation medal for his meritorious service. He was discharged as a sergeant in January 1969, having served as a drill instructor and motor pool sergeant.

Mr. Arnold returned to his hometown and attended college and law school on the G.I. Bill while working full-time. He received his law degree from Lincoln University in 1975 and was admitted to the bar the same year.

The Arnold Law Firm was founded in 1975 with a secretary and a law clerk. From the beginning Mr. Arnold made a commitment to work for people rather than corporations. He began representing accident victims and also handled Workers Compensation claims. He soon discovered that he found satisfaction and fulfillment in the civil jury system and representing those who had been hurt through no fault of their own. Consequently, he began in 1980 to practice solely personal injury law.

As a trial lawyer, Mr. Arnold sees those he represents very much as individuals who might be friends or neighbors. Today, Mr. Arnold is a trial attorney who has limited his practice to Personal Injury, Wrongful Death, Products Liability, Professional Liability and Uninsured and Underinsured Motorists cases. He loves trial preparation, working with the best experts in the world in areas of accident reconstruction, machinery design, manufacturing and medical causation. This has provided extraordinary challenges and rewards every day over his long career.

Mr.. Arnold was admitted to practice before the California Supreme Court in 1975, the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California, in 1976, the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York in 1994, the U.S. Supreme Court in 1995 and the U.S. District Court, District of California, in 2008. He has served as Judge Pro Tem for Sacramento and Placer Superior Courts off and on since 1985.

Mr. Arnold has helped the continuing education of his fellow trial lawyers over the years. He has been a guest speaker and lecturer. He hosts the monthly Problem Solving Clinics for the Capitol City Trial Lawyers Association, a continuing education opportunity for plaintiffs lawyers in the Sacramento Valley. Mr. Arnold has taught Winning Your First Civil Trial sponsored by National Business Institute; Trying the Wrongful Death Case In California sponsored by National Business Institute (1999, 2000, and 2003); Handling an Automobile Case From the Day the Client Walks Into Your Office Up Through Trial sponsored by CCTLA; Winning the Million Dollar Verdict sponsored by CCTLA; Auto Insurance Law and Accident Litigation in California sponsored by Lorman Education Services; MRI Problem Solving Clinic sponsored by CCTLA; California Mock Trial Judge sponsored by Constitutional Rights Foundation.

A past president of the Capitol City Trial Lawyers Association, Mr. Arnold has served on the CCTLA board in excess of 20 years. He is also an active member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, American Association for Justice, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Consumer Attorneys of California, and National Brain Institute. Mr. Arnold and his firm are active in supporting legislation to protect and advance the rights of injured persons. He also has worked over the years to knit together a national network of consumer attorney firms to handle major and complex injury cases.

After 25 years of practicing from his office on University Avenue, Mr. Arnold moved his law firm to a landmark building at the corner of Howe and Northrop avenues. The three-story structure is designed to handle the growth of the firm and to provide his ever-increasing list of clients with expanded service. This new location has a fully operational private courtroom in the Sacramento area.

Outside his practice, Mr. Arnold has made significant community contributions. In 1992, he co-founded the Roseville Community School, which continues to serve the Sacramento area with an innovative hands-on approach to youth education. He has twice been appointed to serve on a Sacramento County advisory board where he helped to supervise building permits and reduce zoning violations. While serving with the board, he also helped craft a no-cost trash removal service that helps to eliminate the accumulation of unsightly and potentially dangerous waste. The Sacramento County Master Plan also benefited from two years of service by Mr. Arnold, including his successful efforts to secure federal funding for the Rio Linda Water Company expansion.

In 2009, the Capitol City Trial Lawyers Association awarded the Friedman Humanitarian Award to Mr. Arnold as a great example of a trial lawyer working for his community under the radar, donating time, expertise, and money according to the CCTLA. The Friedman Humanitarian Award honors exceptional public service, recognizing trial lawyers who have shown an outstanding commitment to their community.

Under Mr. Arnold's leadership, his law firm regularly sponsors and participates in such charitable events as the Run to Feed the Hungry, the Walk for Thought (benefiting the California Brain Injury Association), and the American Cancer Society Run. Annually his firm adopts a family for Christmas by providing gifts and household goods to a needy family in the community.

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Proven Results

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The Arnold Law Firm obtained a 10.2 million dollar verdict handed down in Modesto. Defense counsel was Kevin Cholakian of San Francisco. The defense rejected a 998 within the 1 million dollar policy limits three years ago. The highest defense offer was $350k...Learn More

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The fatal collision between Plaintiffs' Jeep Liberty and defendant's Volvo truck left Ryan Eisenbrandt's surviving wife and parents with a judgment of 3.9 million dollars, but the defendant's insurance company refused to pay. This resulted in a second, intense legal battle between Plaintiffs' and Defendant's...Learn More

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A 20-year-old man who had been married for just 12 days left home on his way to work. He was driving on Pleasant Grove Road in Sutter County early in the morning when he came upon a slow-moving truck. As he pulled out to pass the truck, the truck driver turned left in front of him. The young man attempted to steer back into his...Learn More

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40 year old Earl Bode and his wife Christine walked into the Arnold Firm with three garbage bags of medical receipts and insurance documents handed to them by their prior attorney. Accused of causing an accident that was not Earl’s fault and with his own insurance company claiming he was uninsured, Mr. Bode was dazed and...Learn More

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Randy Stevens opened his eyes and saw his wife standing over him in a hospital room. He had no idea what had happened. His last memory was of standing next to his truck trailer and watching as a Security Contractor Services forklift driver struggled to load an ungainly pallet of...

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Last winter, a commercial truck and trailer made an abrupt wide turn into the path of a 24-year-old motorcyclist. The resulting collision sent Justin to the hospital with a collapsed lung, multiple fractured bones and a traumatic brain injury.

Justin's mother realized that her son needed legal help. While he was still in a coma...

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